Stop The Vote!
September 21st, 2006 at 1:20 pm by Preston Taylor Holmes
Earlier this week, I heard something on the way to work that sent me into my usual morning rage. I was listening to Hal Hill’s show on WNOX (because I was feeling particularly milquetoast that morning…) and they announced that they were giving away $1,000 to some randomly chosen voter.
That’s right, $1,000 cash will be handed out to some lucky voter, plucked at random from the voter lists after the election. Have we truly fallen this far? It certainly seems we have.
I’m sure there were thousands of mental deficients listening to the show thinking to themselves, well isn’t that nice. What a nice idea to get people out to vote… All it did for me was make me want to run down pedestrians at random in a blind rage with my ‘72 Pinto.
It’s bad enough that the Donks bus irresponsible voters to the polls from the caverns in which they lurk, but to encourage the lottery classes to go vote because they might win some money is nothing short of criminal.
There are countries where simply going to the polls will get you killed. But the fat-assed Oprah-watching cretins in the USA need some type of handout or bus ride to exercise the cornerstone of their evaporating freedom.
Not only is providing financial incentive to voters shameful, we should go completely in the other direction. We need to develop some type of baseline certification exam for voters. Nothing too complicated – just a short questionnaire on U.S. Government, History and Current Events. Something so easy that even Sean Penn would have a reasonable shot at passing.
Voting is a responsibility that should be taken seriously. If you’re calling in to vote for American Idol, there should be some mechanism in place to stop you from voting in elections that actually count. Low turnout numbers are a good thing. The lower the turnout, odds are, the smaller the percentage of irresponsible voters.
Really, lottery classes, do the rest of us a favor and stay the hell home. We don’t want your uninformed asses at the polls – STAY HOME.
Also see Stop The Vote 2004 Election Edition
UPDATE:
Swap Blog reports that the $1,000 idea has been canned. Good.
September 21st, 2006 at 5:45 pm
I agree.
But if instead of getting $1000, a lucky voter gets instead three chips to play Plinko with on The Price is Right, I’d be all for it.
September 21st, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Your commentary is irresponsible on two counts, Mr. Holmes.
1. These otherwise disenfranchised voters need a comprehensive plan for incentives to vote. The disenfranchised voter problem is acute in the south…in fact, had the Republicans not disenfranchised so many voters in Florida in 2000…
2. You’re insistence on driving that carbon-emissions-spewing ‘72 Pinto is probably the biggest danger to our environment. How does it feel, Mr. Holmes, to be single-handledly responsible for the emminent destruction of our planet?
September 21st, 2006 at 7:37 pm
Last presidential election, I worked in our county voters registration office. These scum tards were out at college football games, concerts, anywhere there were young people gathered, signing them up to vote. On some of the applications they changed the persons party from republican to democrat. It was not until the voter received their new registration card in the mail that they realized their party had been changed to democrat, against their wishes. Somehow, we never did find out how, young voters who were republican had their party changed to democrat. Forged signatures. Please if you have teens of voting age in your family, advise them if they desire to register to do so with their local voter registration and not thru some group sitting at a table. In all the fraud cases we processed in 04, not a one involved a switch from democrat to republican.
September 21st, 2006 at 8:32 pm
I’m ok with Plinko, as long as the dirtbags have to pay their way to California and have to spend an uncomfortable night with Bob Barker and a branding iron.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:26 am
Ktown Lotto Vote…
thought I may be the only member of the RTB that listened to the Hal Hill show until I saw a Preston Taylor Holmes post over at Six Meat Buffet about the promotion (which has now been terminated due to legal uncertainty – at least for this election) wh…
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:48 am
Listening to Hal is like listening to people talking about paint drying, and in the evening Phil is worse. Knoxville needs some local radio talk talent.
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:20 am
Imp Max, Phil Williams is, hands down, the most unlistenable talk show I’ve ever heard. And I’ve listened to an ass-load of talk radio in my day. Horrendous.
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:18 pm
If SinCerely worked in a Tennessee “county voters registration office” then (s)he is full of it. In Tennessee you do not register by party.